You don’t have to be a teenager to pull off candy-coloured locks. Style's beauty director on the grown-up ways to let your tresses do the talking

I
f you want to give a rebel yell, then lurid hair is the way to go right now.
The new punk mood started a little while ago. First seen on cool hipsters
and the catwalk at Chanel, it has suddenly hit critical mass and gone
mainstream. Katie Grand, one of fashion’s key conductors of trends, recently
tweeted: “I’ve got blue hair yipeeeee.” Why? “I wanted to strip all of the
dye out of my hair and go natural, but completely natural seemed a little
dull. So I got them to dye the bottom third blue-black.”

An aversion to boring seems to be the key factor driving the trend. “I think
we’re tired of doing a set of highlights, and dip-dye and ombre have gone
high-street. Now we want something different, more fun, more edgy,” says
Said Cheqrouni, a senior colourist at Daniel Hersheson. “It’s about making
your hair a part